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Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece – BBC
Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece 1 February 2022. By Colm Kelpie, BBC News, NI In the spring of 1921, Paris bookseller Sylvia Beach boasted about her plans to publish a novel she deemed a masterpiece that would be “ranked among the classics in English literature”. “Ulysses is going to make my place…
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Google Willow: The secrets of the world’s most powerful quantum computer
Inside the sub-zero lair of the world’s most powerful computer By Faisal Islam, Economics editor It looks like a golden chandelier and contains the coldest place in the known universe. What I am looking at is not just the most powerful computer in the world, but technology pivotal to financial security, Bitcoin, government secrets, the…
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Renee Nicole Good: Who was the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis? – BBC News
Who was Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE? 1 day ago, By Tiffany Wertheimer The woman shot dead by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis has been identified as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had just moved to the city. She was a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist,…
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Technology in 2050 – experts give their predictions – BBC
AI teachers and cybernetics – what could the world look like in 2050? By Laura Cress, Technology reporter, 3 days ago The last 25 years has seen some mind-bending technological changes. At the start of the century, most computers connected to the internet with noisy dial-up connections, Netflix was an online DVD rental company, and…
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Epstein files takeaways: Possible co-conspirators, fake video and Trump trips – BBC.com
Watch: The BBC reports on the latest Epstein file release, 23 December 2025 The US Department of Justice (DoJ) released its latest – and largest – tranche of files on Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday. The 11,000-plus documents continue a stream of released information that began on Friday, the deadline mandated in a law that required…
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Trump says nuclear weapons testing to resume in US after more than 30 years – BBC News
Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years 3 hours ago, by Max Matza President Donald Trump called on US military leaders to resume testing US nuclear weapons in order to keep pace with other countries such as Russia and China. “Because of other countries testing programs, I have…
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Trump administration rewrites and scales back annual human rights report – BBC
By Tom Bateman, State Department correspondent The Trump administration has significantly rewritten and downscaled the US government’s annual report on global human rights abuses. The document, previously seen as the most comprehensive study of its kind by any government, significantly reduces criticism of some US allies such as Israel and El Salvador while escalating disapproval…
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Shock result in particle experiment could spark physics revolution – BBC News
By Pallab Ghosh, Science correspondent, Published 2 days ago Scientists just outside Chicago have found that the mass of a sub-atomic particle is not what it should be. The measurement is the first conclusive experimental result that is at odds with one of the most important and successful theories of modern physics. The team has…
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Matching drugs to DNA is ‘new era of medicine’ | BBC News
By James Gallagher, Health and science correspondent, Published March 29, 2022 We have the technology to start a new era in medicine by precisely matching drugs to people’s genetic code, a major report says. Some drugs are completely ineffective or become deadly because of subtle differences in how our bodies function. The British Pharmacological Society…
